embale

See also: embalé

English

Etymology

From French emballer. See bale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbeɪl/

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Verb

embale (third-person singular simple present embales, present participle embaling, simple past and past participle embaled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bind up; to enclose, or make into a pack.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:

     legs […] embayld in gilden buskins

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “embale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ambele, mabele

Portuguese

Verb

embale

1. inflection of embalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈbale/ [ẽmˈba.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: em‧ba‧le

Verb

embale

1. inflection of embalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative